The Real Estate Fraud (1912)
Jack Stevens sees the advertisement of a Western land agent. As he is reading the ad his mother receives a letter from her brother, saying that he has left her $7000. They decide to invest it. Jack arrives at the office and meets Mabel Mittler, the stenographer. She likes the boy and is interested in his conversation. The agent returns and to him Jack tells his errand. The girl listens in horror when she hears [the agent] paint in glowing terms the property she has heard him refuse to undertake to sell that very morning. The agent suggests they go to visit the tract and the girl is on the point of warning the boy, then changes her mind. The return of the agent and his attitude tells her that he has achieved his object. Her employer tells her to fill out the necessary papers. Jack draws his checkbook from his pocket, when the telephone rings. The agent tells her he will be right back and to take the young man's dictation in a letter to his mother: "Dearest Mother--I am paying $7000 on a fine piece of land and will have to give a mortgage on the little home for another thousand. It won't be long until I send for you.--Your loving Son." Now she turns to the boy and implores him not to sign the letter or the check and tells him that the land is worthless. Furiously angry, he destroys the letter and the check and rushes from the room. Down the street he went, meets the agent and the owner laughing heartily over the simpleton they have landed. He blurts out his opinion of their methods and carelessly implicates the girl. The agent hurries to his office and orders her from his office. Down the street she wanders. The land owner accosts her, but she refuses to have anything to do with him. The boy has witnessed the affair and with one well-directed blow knocks him down. Then Jack sent a telegram to his mother, saying that he didn't get the land, but got a wife.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Allan Dwan | Director |
| Cast | Role |
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| J. Warren Kerrigan | |
| Pauline Bush |
